AIT - Automotive, Infrastructure and Transports

Project

Project management for serial development of initial run of a system for automated switch-off and restart of a combustion engine in vehicles with automatic and manual transmissions.

Context & objectives

• Project management
• Coordination of control device function integration (HW and SW) of different development units within the enterprise
• Optimisation of overall system within series development process
• Requirements management, test and validation of the complete system

Functional & technical environment

• Utilisation of milestone-trend analysis, implementation planning and alignment
• System analysis, simulation, CAN and Flexray measurements, error tracing with HP quality center, requirements and change management with DOORS

Approach & solution

• Identification of all project participants (stakeholder analysis)
• Analysis of existing development process and addition of necessary process stages
• Agreement on performance interfaces with relevant stakeholders
• Coordination of joint procedures for validation of the highly interconnected functions with the participating interface partners
• Overall vehicle analysis and vehicle test with various measuring techniques, e.g. CAN and Flexray tracing, OBD analysis, etc.
• Virtual system analysis by means of active chains and simulations
• Simulation of the most important impact parameters to assess cost-down potentials at an early stage

Results & added value

• Model process is also applicable to other highly interconnected functions 
• Virtual validation allows for prediction of the impact of cost-down measures on the whole function network
• Improved safeguarding chains result in a stable development process with functional maturity being achieved at an earlier stage
• First cost-down loop is already effective at initial start-up
• Faster development cycles for further development projects
• New development projects can be implemented with fewer resources by means of the optimised process
• All impact parameters for comfort, technical improvements as well as costs of the overall function exist and can be further optimised

Project

Development of a remaining range computing module for electro and plug-in hybrid vehicles for use in various model series.

Context & objectives

• Project management
• Increase of benefit for customers compared with conventional remaining range computing function
• Innovative algorithmics with involvement of predictive information

Functional & technical environment

• Requirements management, project management
• Model based software development, MiL test environment, diagnostic tools, CAN tools, validation and verification

Approach & solution

• Requirements analysis & concept development
• Project-, budget-, resources- and release planning
• Management, organisation and moderation of market internal and external coordination discussions
• Preparation of various specification documents
• Drafting the model architecture, function development and modelling in target link complying with the style directives of the OEM
• Control of the function verification
• Promoting implementation of the own brand in the software department and with the supplier
• Test and safeguard planning
• Functions validation
• Issue of release recommendation

Results & added value

• Timely function – developed, coordinated and supervised from conception up to approval for series production
• Development of innovations in the field of e-mobility for the OEM
• Integration of the function into the model series on schedule